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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday June 15, 1919
Atlanta, Georgia – Comrade Debs Now an Inmate at Federal Penitentiary
From The West Virginian of June 14, 1919:
DEBS IS MOVED FROM MOUNDSVILLE
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Marshall Ned Smith Took Famous Prisoner
to Federal Prison at Atlanta.
—–(By Associated Press.)
WHEELING, W. Va., June 14.-Eugene V. Debs, former Socialist candidate for President, who was placed in the Moundsville penitentiary two months ago on being sentenced to a term of ten years for violation of the Federal Espionage law, this morning is an inmate of the Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga.
Debs, who was taken by surprise by the action, was removed from the penitentiary yesterday morning, it was learned today, by United States Marshal Ned Smith and deputies and brought to Wheeling where he was placed on a train for Atlanta by way of Cincinnati.
Up to early today the reasons for Debs’ removal had not been stated officially but it was reported that the greater safety of the Southern prison had something to do with the move.
While in Wheeling and on the train en route to Cincinnati every effort was made by the officers to keep the identity of their prisoner a secret.
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SOURCES
Quote EVD Enter Prison Untamed, Ipl Str p11, Apr 14, 1919
https://www.newspapers.com/image/119163271/
The West Virginian
(Fairmont, West Virginia)
-June 14, 1919
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86072054/1919-06-14/ed-1/seq-1/
IMAGES
Eugene Victor Debs, EVD, Liberator, May 1919
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/1919/05/v2n05-may-1919-liberator.pdf
See also:
Debs
His Authorized Life and Letters
(-from Woodstock Prison to Atlanta)
Note: authorized by Debs at Atlanta Prison
on July 17, 1919, see page vii.)
-by David Karsner
Boni and Liveright, 1919
https://books.google.com/books?id=U9cPAQAAMAAJ
Chapter IV-Two Months at Moundsville Prison
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=U9cPAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA79
Chapter V-Transferred to Atlanta
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=U9cPAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA101
Category: Eugene Victor Debs
https://weneverforget.org/category/eugene-victor-debs/
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